OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of World Business is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	212
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	134
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	120
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	92
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	82
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	76
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	73
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	71
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	69
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	51
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	49
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	49
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	43
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	41
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	40
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	39
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	38
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	37
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	36
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	35
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	35
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	35
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	35
Editorial Board	34
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	33

Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	33
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	32
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	32
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	32
Unlearning diversity management	31
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	31
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	31
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	31
Editorial Board	28
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	28
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	28
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	28
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions	27
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	27
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	25
Editorial Board	24
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	24
Editorial Board	24
Towards a dynamic theory of lateral collaboration across multinational enterprise structures: A collection of insights	24
International business under sanctions	24
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	23
A double-edged sword? Founder Teams' Prior International Experience and INV International Scale-up	23
Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research	23
Relieving status anxiety: How low-status firms respond to international status-heterophilous relationships	23
Editorial Board	22
Editorial Board	22
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	22
International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise	20
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry	20
Editorial Board	20